From May 31 to June 1, 1921, one of the single worst acts of racial violence in American history took place as mobs of white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, attacked the black people and black-owned businesses of the city’s Greenwood District.
According to , it “was one of the worst outbreaks of racial violence in American history: a horrific spree of murder, arson and looting inflicted by white residents upon the prosperous African American community of Greenwood, followed by a shameless cover-up.”The attacks have since become known as the Tulsa Race Massacre.
And in the 99 years since, the story has remained buried — largely ignored in American history classes — only to become a forgotten crucial part of history that’s only being recently
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